Thanks Tyler, However, for snapshotting to work, don't you have to have at least as much space for the snapshot as you do for the original partition? I currently am using nearly 60% of the VG just for backups, which is the root of the problem. It wasn't apparent in my scanning of the article (I'll go back and read for content in a bit).
--b On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 April 2010 06:03:08 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > > I am currently in the process of doing this in two steps: > > > > 1. Moving the cpool to a partition with LVM, so as to be able to make > > snapshot binary backups in future. > > > > 2. Copying the snapshot over the network to a backup server. > > > > I'll blog it soon and post here. In short, the fastest way to duplicate > > your pool is: dd if=/dev/partition1 of=/dev/partition2 > > As promised, how to use LVM to clone a BackupPC pool. > > > http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc- > pool/<http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc-%0Apool/> > > Regards, > Tyler > > -- > "Before we got into this war there were countless 'military experts' > and intelligence analysts that told us this was a good idea, that we > had to do it. That presented their information, and were so terribly > wrong. These people are still affecting public policy. They are still > considered experts. I'm sorry, shouldn't there be a rule or law that > says if you fuck things up so badly, you can no longer be considered > an expert?" > -- Tim Robbins > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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